Two New Books On Ableton Live 9

Hal Leonard has released two new books on Ableton Live 9 in the Quick Pro Guide range: Sound Design, Mixing, and Mastering with Ableton Live 9 and Producing Music with Ableton Live 9.

Here's Hal Leonard's description of both books:

Sound Design, Mixing, and Mastering with Ableton Live 9 deepens, enlivens, inspires, and improves your tracking, audio production, and performance skills with Ableton Live 9. From in-depth discussions of mixing and mastering that you would expect to learn in an audio production school to inspiring recipes for audio magic and mayhem, this book is designed to help you find your way int a much larger musical world. Filled with audio-making and audio-mangling recipes, tips, and mixing and mastering techniques, it takes you far beyond the basics.

Author, mastering engineer, Ableton certified trainer and power user Jake Perrine inspires you to use Live 9 in a new ways and shows you how to improve the way you already use it. Striking a delicate balance of artistry and theory, he expands your creative repertoire for both the studio and the stage and demonstrates creative production techniques that help you get the most out of Ableton Live 9 for improvising with other musicians; sound design for music, film, theater, and games; composition; live looping; DJing; and, of course, mixing and mastering music. Along with audio samples, demo software, and insightful video tutorials, the accompanying DVD-ROM provides actual Ableton Live sessions that you can use to practice the powerful techniques presented in the text.

The unique, groundbreaking, and incredibly flexible features in Ableton Live 9 set it far apart from all other audio applications. Whether you're making beats, remixing, live recording, DJing, live looping, producing songs, or creating sound design, electronic music, or hip-hop, Producing Music with Ableton Live 9 provides extremely important tips and techniques designed to help you succeed. Unlike other books about Ableton Live that read like a second manual, this books walks you through the features that you must understand in order to create an actual track from start to finish.

Whether you want to DJ, make mashups and remixes, play with a band, or build epic dance anthems from scratch, Ableton certified trainer Jake Perrine provides the hands-on, expert guidance you'll need in order to produce powerful music with Ableton Live 9. A substantial appendix section offers discussions of important non-Ableton specific topics, including digital audio basics, components of a producer's studio, considerations when buying a DAW computer, and more.

About the authorJake Perrine, an Ableton certified trainer and WarpAcademy.com curriculum director , has been making electronic music for over 25 years. In addition, he has over a decade of experience teaching audio production at the college level. So, not only does he know what he's talking about, he knows how to make sure you know what he's talking about.

Pricing and Availability:

Sound Design, Mixing & Mastering with Ableton Live 9: $19.99Producing Music with Ableton Live 9: $19.99